Figures from the United Nations show India being the world's largest diaspora, standing at 15.6 million people while revealing a change in the Indian immigrant's shift in the past two decades from the US towards countries in the Middle East mostly to work as manual laborers and domestic staff.
We feature ten such interesting facts about the geographical aspects of our people living abroad:
Interestingly, The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Population Division revealed that worldwide, 244 million people were living in a country other than where they were born in 2015. That was an increase of 41% compared with the year 2000. Also, of the 20 countries with the largest diaspora, 11 were located in Asia. (The Wall Street Journal) (picture courtesy: visual.ly)